2021 Manifesto FINAL DRAFT - Flipbook - Page 16
• Refuse all gifts and hospitality and encourage all WMCA Board
members to do the same.
• Publish my expenses online in detail, and available for all to
see.
• Sign up to the Code of Practice for Statistics.
• Push the WMCA to webcast their meetings.
• Produce a clear roadmap for the WMCA, including proposed
further devolution deals, how they would benefit the region, how
they are negotiated and by whom.
• Ask WMCA officers to launch a simple communications
strategy, setting out what the WMCA is, how its powers differ
from or align with Local Authorities, Local Enterprise
Partnerships (LEPs) and the Midlands Engine, and who exactly
can make which decisions.
• Promote and engage more with community groups, giving
local communities a bigger say over how the mayor’s powers
protect and develop their local areas. I will value my relationship
with business and will also meet as regularly with community
organisations.
Democracy
I WILL: